The annual gathering that is the Davos World Economic Forum gets underway in the small Swiss Alpine resort on Wednesday 28th January. For those of you keen to follow the goings on over the next three days, here is a hand-picked highlight of the coverage that is coming your way.
From the FT:
The FT’s Davos blog is up and away, with the thoughts and musings of FT’s very own Martin Wolf, Gillian Tett, Gideon Rachman and John Gapper. Also featured are guest blogs from:
British foreign secretary, David Miliband
President of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger
London School of Economics director, Sir Howard Davies
Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, Stephen Roach
Co-chairman of Infosys, Nandan Nilekani
General secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation, John Monks
And WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell, who is already offering us this little snippet:
Just limbering up for Davos and saving the world in four days up a Swiss alp in the snow in January – and it’s snowing today. Surprisingly there’s a record registration level of around 2,500 people, around 40 heads of government and key business people, trade unionists, expert advisors and NGOs – and the usual plethora of management consultants and investment banks. But everyone’s going to be more sombre this year – not so many parties or movie stars.
There is also the Davos microsite to which all Davos-related content will be linked. Expect FT reportage as well as interviews with key attendees from our FT video team also on the ground.
And for those keen to keep up to date as things happen you can follow the Davos twitter feed.
And the others:
- CNBC is running a dedicated Davos website including reportage, interviews and presenter/producer blog.
For those interested here is Wednesday’s schedule:
****ALL TIMES CET****
0700: The Davos Agenda: Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum 0715: Lord Levene, Chairman, Lloyd’s
0750: Emerging Market Panel Andrey Kostin, Chairman & CEO, VTB Bank AND Koray Ozturkler, Deputy CEO, Turkcell
0820: Nouriel Roubini, Chairman, RGE Monitor
0830:Ian Livingston, CEO, BT 0850: Company Results Léo Apotheker, Co-CEO, SAP
0910: Magnus Böcker, President, NasdaqOMX
0920: Mark Spelman, Global Head of Strategy, Accenture
0930: Sameer Al Ansari, Executive Chairman and CEO, Dubai International Capital
1000: Ken Rosen, Professor Emeritus, University of California
1030: Stephen King, Group Chief Economist, HSBC Holdings
1040: Nandan Nilekani, Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors, Infosys
1100: Kendall J. Powell, CEO, General Mills
1115: Bill Hawkins, CEO, Medtronics
1140: Richard Edelman, President & CEO, Edelman
1205: Pascal Lamy, Director-General, World Trade Organization
1220: Shumeet Banerji, CEO, Booz & Company
1250: Reid Hoffman, Founder & CEO, LinkedIn
1700: John Studzinski, Senior Managing Director, Blackstone Group
1710: Pierre Gadonneix, CEO, EDF
1740:Yasser El Mallawany, CEO, EFG-Hermes Holding
1910: Jan Peter Balkenende, Dutch Prime Minister
1915: Muhtar Kent, CEO, Cola-Cola
1935: Ian Bremmer, President, Eurasia Group
- Bloomberg provides a special report, including links to video content.
- Another dedicated Davos website this time from WEF itself featuring blogs galore and further links.
- Reuters has established its web presence for Davos here
- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard pens his thoughts among others in the Telegraph’s Davos Diary , and Ben Verwaayen offers his view from his own Telegraph blog.
- The Guardian amalgamates away here
- The BBC has left Pesto to it in London, but providing coverage in its Davos Diaries are business editor Tim Weber and director of global news Richard Sambrook
- Daniel Gross is blogging for Newsweek
- It’s another Davos diary, this time from Dealbook
- Businessweek’s Bruce Nussbaum is on the Davos beat
- It’s the Daily Davos from the WSJ, including Kofi Annan’s daily diary.
- Forbes‘ dispatches from Davos
- CNN is in the Davos field
- Et pour les francophones: Une semaine à Davos, from Les Echos